Posted on 04/15/2007 4:43:46 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Europe's bio-threat readiness questioned
Image: European Community Europe discusses how to prepare itself in the face of bio-terrorism threats and "perversions" of science, not to mention naturally occurring bio-threats to human health.
By Brooks Tigner in Brussels for ISN Security Watch (11/04/07)
The EU must work much closer with its 27 national capitals and across the Atlantic to combat the growing threat of bio-terrorism, according to EU and US policymakers and scientists.
The European Commission aims to fire up discussion of the issue and prompt some solutions when it issues a consultative document on bio-preparedness in the coming weeks.
While Washington is pushing ahead with high levels of government spending and close public-private coordination to protect the US population against bio-attacks, policy in Europe still lacks focus and is splintered into separate national policies, despite universal concern among EU and national experts that their continent is highly vulnerable to attack. Pan-European research is just as fragmented, though current and forthcoming EU-funded projects aim to pull researchers in the same direction.
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There is no policy coherence in bio-preparedness in general across Europe, whether the issue is one of vaccine production, security at bio- and virological laboratories or national immunization policies.
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Terrorism trial begins for Padilla
April 15, 2007
By Curt Anderson The Associated Press
MIAMI — Nearly five years ago, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft told the world that the United States had thwarted a frightening al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” in a major city and had arrested a “known terrorist,” Jose Padilla.
Speaking at a hastily arranged June 2002 news conference in Moscow, Ashcroft darkly suggested the plot could have caused “mass death and injury” and that President Bush had designated Padilla, a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent, as an enemy combatant who would be held in indefinite military custody rather than face civilian criminal charges.
• Alleged Padilla confessions that his jury won’t hear
“He was involved in planning future terrorist attacks on American civilians in the United States,” Ashcroft said, while a jittery nation still reeled from the Sept. 11 and anthrax attacks in 2001.
That started an unprecedented odyssey for Padilla, a 36-year-old Muslim convert and one-time member of Chicago’s Latin Disciples street gang. A new chapter begins Monday with jury selection for terror support charges in a case with no mention of the dirty-bomb allegations or purported plots inside the United States.
“It has had so many unbelievable twists and turns,” said Michael Greenberger, a University of Maryland law professor who directs the school’s Center for Health and Homeland Security. “It really will be the stuff of legend in terms of how we attempted to deal with terrorists in the war on terror.”
Padilla, held for 3½ years as an enemy combatant, and co-defendants Adham Amin Hassoun, 45, and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 44, face possible life in prison if convicted on charges of conspiracy to “murder, kidnap and maim” people overseas and of providing support to terror groups.
The three have pleaded not guilty to being part of a North American support cell that funneled fighters, money and supplies to Islamic extremists fighting “jihad,” or Muslim holy war, in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Tajikistan and elsewhere around the world. The trial is expected to take at least four months.
Although there is no direct connection, the shadow of the
9-11 attacks hangs over the case, with dozens of potential jurors mentioning the suicide hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in questionnaires meant to gauge their ability to be fair and impartial.
“It is not going to be possible to eradicate 9-11 from the thoughts of jurors,” said Philip Anthony, chief executive officer of the national jury consulting firm DecisionQuest. “Your strategic issue is ferreting out the underlying beliefs about 9-11. That’s a lot harder.”
Prosecutors say Hassoun acted as a South Florida recruiter and fundraiser for violent Muslim causes. Padilla, who had worked at a Taco Bell and as a hotel busboy after moving with his family to Broward County, became one of the warrior recruits. Padilla had converted to Islam in a Florida prison while serving a year for a 1991 weapons conviction.
A key piece of evidence is a purported “mujahedeen data form” that prosecutors say Padilla completed in 2000 — his fingerprints are on it — to join an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan.
Jayyousi’s alleged major role was publication of the “Islam Report,” which prosecutors say was used to spread extremist Islamic ideology and assist in the fundraising and terror support efforts. Jayyousi contends he was only reporting on global events of Muslim interest, and his lawyer says prosecutors are attempting to expand the case into a trial of various Islamic political and religious groups.
“The trial will ultimately become the United States vs. Islam,” said Jayyousi lawyer William Swor.
The alleged conspiracy goes back more than a decade, with prosecutors claiming more than 50,000 intercepted telephone calls and room conversations. Many of the conversations in Arabic use purported code, with words such as “soccer equipment” and “tourism” supposedly meaning weaponry and war.
“Critical to the government’s proving its case is persuading the jury that all the dots in what it claims was an international conspiracy can be connected,” said Carl Tobias, law professor at the University of Richmond.
Yet there’s little proof that the three were directly responsible for any specific acts of terrorism. In court papers, prosecutors listed more generalized victims such as Serbian and Croat forces in the 1990s Bosnian war, the Russian army in Chechnya and “moderate” Muslim governments in Libya, Tunisia and elsewhere.
Defense lawyers say providing assistance to one faction in these conflicts does not necessarily amount to a crime.
“There was a lot of killing on both sides,” Hassoun lawyer Jeanne Baker said of the Bosnian war. “Killing only becomes murder under certain specific circumstances. Defending Muslims is not committing murder.”
Padilla, the most famous of the defendants, becomes almost a bit player in this alleged conspiracy. His voice is only heard on eight of the FBI wiretaps and he is mentioned on about 20 others. One of those says that Padilla had gone to “the area of Osama,” an apparent reference to bin Laden’s al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan.
Padilla was hastily added to the existing Miami case in November 2005, a few days before a Supreme Court deadline for Bush administration briefs on the question of the president’s powers to continue holding him without charge. Padilla’s lawyers had been fighting during his long, isolated brig custody to get him out and into civilian courts.
“The way the law seemed to be heading was that the president could do whatever he wanted with someone picked up on the field of battle but not someone who was picked up in the United States,” Greenberger said.
The abrupt legal move essentially ended the war powers legal battle as it related to Padilla, though several Supreme Court justices said they would revisit the issue if it appears Padilla is treated unfairly.
Padilla claimed he was tortured while interrogated in the brig — a charge repeatedly denied by the Bush administration — and sought unsuccessfully to have his case dismissed for “outrageous government conduct.” His lawyers also wanted him declared incompetent to stand trial because of mental problems stemming from his brig custody, but that also was rejected.
U.S. officials also claim Padilla admitted involvement and training with al-Qaida during his brig interrogations, as well as the proposed “dirty bomb” plot and another plan to blow up high-rise apartment buildings. None of that can be used as evidence because Padilla had no lawyer present and was not read his Miranda rights.
“If he’s acquitted, it’s going to be a cautionary tale about denying full constitutional rights to U.S. citizens who are accused of a crime,” Greenberger said.
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/342029,153NWS4.article
Casablanca on full alert after fraternal suicide attack
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) - Moroccan security forces beefed up security around Western interests here Sunday as they hunted suicide bombers a day after two brothers blew themselves up near the US consulate.
Five suicide bombers have killed themselves in the Moroccan port city in five days.
Security was tight as Casablanca braced itself for new strikes even as police said they had arrested the ringleaders behind earlier attacks.
Events in Morocco, together with the recent coordinated suicide bomb attacks in the Algerian capital Algiers, have fuelled fears of increased militant strikes across North Africa.
Wednesday’s attacks in Algiers, which killed 33 people, were claimed by an Al-Qaeda group.
In Casablanca, the authorities tightened security around the US, Belgian, Italian and Spanish consulates.
The US government warned of a high risk of violence against US citizens in the port city and advised Americans to stay at home.
“The potential for violence against American interests and citizens and other Western targets remains high in Morocco,” the US consulate in Casablanca said in a statement.
“Moroccan authorities continue to disrupt groups seeking to attack US- or Western-affiliated targets and arrest individuals associated with international terrorist groups.
“Establishments which are readily identifiable with the United States are potential targets for attacks.”
Bomber Mohamed Maha set off explosives 40 metres (150 feet) from the heavily guarded entrance to the US consular building in Casablanca on Saturday.
After the explosion, his younger brother Omar ran off along the Boulevard Moulay Youssef towards the American Language Centre, a private school, where he blew himself up, witnesses said.
There were no other fatalities but one woman was reported to have been injured in the blasts.
Police arrested six people in the area, including one man found with an empty explosives belt, a police source said.
The two brothers lived with their father and step-mother in an apartment in the Derb Sultan district, near where three suicide bombers killed themselves on Tuesday to avoid arrest.
Police shot dead a fourth would-be bomber before he could detonate his device.
Neighbours said that Mohamed, 32, had printed t-shirts for a clothing company while his brother had worked as a street vendor. They had not noticed any signs of militant activity by the pair.
Police said they had arrested the head of the group responsible for suicide explosions at a Casablanca Internet cafe on March 11 and Tuesday’s attacks.
The unnamed man and his deputy were arrested on the outskirts of Casablanca on Thursday during raids that followed the attacks two days earlier.
Police said the men led them to an apartment which contained equipment that might have been used for attacks.
“In their room, in which all the windows had been covered, we found communications equipment, documents and two bags,” a police official told AFP.
Police said they had been able to identify the rest of the group and were actively looking for them.
One of the three bombers who killed themselves on Tuesday was the brother of a man who died in a March 11 explosion at the Casablanca Internet cafe that sparked the police hunt.
Officials said all the men involved in both the March 11 and this week’s incidents grew up in the Sidi Moumen area.
A police official said Saturday’s incident was “a desperate act in response to the successful crackdown in recent weeks by the police and security services to dismantle terrorist cells”.
Terrorism analysts said the group behind the spate of bombings did not appear well organised.
Saturday’s blasts follow suicide bomb attacks in the capital of neighbouring Algeria including one on the prime minister’s office.
The attacks there were claimed by a group calling itself Al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch.
The US embassy in Algiers issued a warning Saturday that militants could be planning more attacks in the capital.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415/wl_africa_afp/moroccoattacks_070415123913
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Thank YOU QUIX, YOU Freepers are always in the back of my mind.
I hope this trial doesn’t take as long as Zacarias Moussaoui’s did. Although I like the idea of Jose spending the rest of his life in beautiful Florance Co..
Casablanca on full alert after fraternal suicide attack
Sahara Dispute Limits Terror Fight
Townhall ^ | 4/13/07
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817274/posts
Posted on 04/14/2007 9:29:54 AM CDT by Valin
With its endless expanse of desolate sands, the Western Sahara might not seem worth fighting over. But the thinly populated, Italy-sized region on Africa’s northwest coast is at the heart of a three-decade-long dispute that, U.S. officials and analysts say, inhibits the fight against terrorism across North Africa.
Any doubts about the seriousness of the terrorist problem in the region were undercut by attacks in Morocco, on Tuesday and Saturday, and Algeria, on Wednesday. In the latest attack, two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Casablanca near an American cultural center.
The incidents followed expressions of interest by al-Qaida in expanding its activities in the area.
It is a region that offers relatively easy access to potential targets across the Mediterranean in Europe. Detection of Muslim militants can be difficult in North Africa, with its undulating deserts and majestic mountains.
For three decades Morocco and Algeria have been divided over the phosphate-rich Western Sahara. Morocco claims sovereignty in the territory. Algeria supports the pro-independence Polisario Front rebels, who are based in Algeria, a short distance from the Western Saharan border.
The United States believes resolving the conflict could be a catalyst for improved counterterror cooperation throughout North Africa and for a free trade agreement that would promote economic growth and reduce the appeal of terrorist groups for unemployed youth.
“The United States remains concerned that that Western Sahara is a primary stumbling block for regional cooperation and development goals for the region,” State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said.
“We look forward to realistic and workable solutions that bring peace, stability and economic prosperity” to the region that encompasses Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
Jonathan Alterman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says Algerian-Moroccan counterterrorism cooperation is too limited. “There is no question they could cooperate more. It seems to me that the benefits of resolving the (Western Sahara) issue are obvious,” he says.
An internal report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, leaked in October, criticized Morocco for not giving Western Saharans the right to determine their future.
It accused Morocco of abusing the rights of pro-independence activists and using excessive force on them. Morocco said the report failed to take into account Polisario rights violations.
Of particular concern to the U.S. is the Algerian-based Salafist Group for Call and Combat. A year ago, the State Department’s then-counterterrorism chief, Henry Crumpton, told a conference in Algeria that the group had become a “regional terrorist organization,” and had forged links with militant groups in North Africa and beyond.
Months after Crumpton spoke, the group established formal ties with al-Qaida and later staged a series of seven near-simultaneous bombings in the Kabylie region of Algeria, killing six and wounding 30. In January, Tunisia announced that it had killed 12 and arrested 15 extremists who, it said, had crossed the border from Algeria.
Two suicide bombings in Algiers on Wednesday killed 33 people and wounded more than 200. Among the targets was the main government building in the capital.
The day before, in the Moroccan coastal city of Casablanca, suicide bombers killed one policeman and wounded 10 people.
Saturday’s attack in Casablanca injured one woman. Police arrested a man wearing an explosive belt and two other suspects in the neighborhood, which is also home to the American Consulate and a synagogue, an Interior Ministry official said.
A cease-fire between Morocco and the Polisario has been in effect since 1991. It is monitored by a 230-member U.N. peacekeeping force whose mandate ends April 30.
The U.S. has pushed for a settlement in Western Sahara, but compromise does not come easy. James A. Baker, the former secretary of state, tried for seven years to broker a settlement on behalf of the United Nations but gave up in 2004.
Morocco presented an autonomy plan to the United Nations on Thursday that would permit the election of a parliament and create a regional government in Western Sahara to oversee day-to-day affairs. But sovereignty would remain with the Moroccan government in Rabat.
In a new sign of flexibility, Morocco indicated a willingness to negotiate details of the plan with the Polisario rebels.
Days before the shift in the Moroccan position, Polisario leaders had urged an independence referendum and offered to forge a “special relationship” with Morocco should it lead to a sovereign state for the Saharawis, as the people of Western Sahara are known.
The Bush administration made clear its view to Moroccan officials this past week that the Polisario interests must be taken into account if lasting peace is to be achieved.
Overall, Morocco is one of the United States’ closest allies among the Arabs. The Polisario’s closest ally is Cuba, but it has strong diplomatic support among other developing countries, particularly in Africa.
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LOL, I missed your ping and have posting on the old thread all night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1791631/posts?q=1&;page=5101
Thanks for the new thread.
Thank you for the new thread, it is perfect.
The prior threads in this series are:
World Terrorism prior threads:
WT Thread #1: [Started on January 1, 2006]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1550424/posts?page=4809
WT Thread #2: [The communist manifesto, muslim manifesto and list of elected in U.S. who belong to the Socialist party, on the first page of the thread]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1607641/posts?q=1&&page=4951
Thread #3:
Beginning of Israel/Lebanon War and so much more.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1650751/posts?q=1&&page=4601
Thread #4:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1679491/posts?q=1&&page=1
Thread #5:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1711256/posts?q=1&&page=1
Thread #6:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1754972/posts?q=1&&page=5151
Thread #7:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1791631/posts?q=1&;page=1
Ping to thread #8.
Davey made it and I missed the ping.
Have several posts waiting and will be posting to “all”, not single pings.
Good morning to all of you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818076/posts
Natural Balance Pulling Venison Formulas (Pet Food Firestorm!)
Itchmo ^ | Monday April 15, 2007 | Milwaukee_Guy
Posted on 04/16/2007 6:03:26 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy
Itchmo has confirmed an email from Natural Balance that they are removing two products from sale:
Venison and Brown Rice Dry Dog Formula Venison and Green Pea Dry Dog Cat Formula
These products do not contain wheat gluten. No deaths or serious illnesses have been reported and no recall warning has been issued. The warning applies only to products sold in the last week, according to Natural Balance.
“Please know that at this time we are removing this product from the shelves, as we have had some phone calls indicating gastric upset after eating this formula. At this time, we are unsure if this could just be a particular batch problem, or simply customers switching diets too fast. However, in the meantime while we are looking further into this matter, we are not recommending to feed this formula, and are suggesting to feed our Potato and Duck or Sweet Potato and Fish Dry Dog Formula.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1818034/posts
FDA attempting to regulate supplements, herbs and juices as “drugs”
Newstarget ^ | 4/13/2007 | Mike Adams
Posted on 04/16/2007 4:28:30 AM PDT by djf
When it comes to health freedom, this is the FDA’s end game. A new FDA “guidance” document, published on the FDA’s website, reveals plans to reclassify virtually all vitamins, supplements, herbs and even vegetable juices as FDA-regulated drugs. Massage oils and massage rocks will be classified as “medical devices” and require FDA approval. The document is called Docket No. 2006D-0480. Draft Guidance for Industry on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out and now the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic medicine or any other “complementary” or “alternative” modality, it is crucial that you take action to post your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives in Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine. (And be sure to really write them. Just sending an email has virtually no impact compared to writing a physical letter in your own words.)
Click here for the direct link to the FDA’s comment posting page for this docket.
This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements “legal” while eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA. It is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the nation, and every citizen is diagnosied with a fictitious disease and drugged up on monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.
Much more at the article site above.
If they get their way, YOU WILL NEED A PRESCRIPTION FOR VITAMIN C!!!!
[[[[The day will come when you need a prescription to buy tea and coffee...........granny]]]]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818067/posts
France knew of 9/11 plot
Jerusalem Post/LeMonde ^ | 4-16-07
Posted on 04/16/2007 5:44:26 AM PDT by SJackson
A French intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was working on a plot to hijack US airliners, and it passed the information on to the CIA, Le Monde reported Monday.
The newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified documents on Osama bin Laden’s terror network that were drawn up by the French foreign intelligence service, the DGSE, between July 2000 and October 2001.
The Defense Ministry did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Le Monde reported that the documents included a note dated January 5, 2001, which said al-Qaida had been working on a hijacking plot for months. The intelligence note reported that bin Laden had attended a meeting in Afghanistan in October 2000, where a final decision to carry out the plot was made, the newspaper said.
French intelligence officials apparently had no idea that al-Qaida was plotting to crash hijacked planes into buildings, as what happened in the Septeber 11 attacks.
Le Monde quoted Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi, a former chief of staff for the intelligence agency’s director, as saying, “You have to remember that up until 2001, hijacking an airplane did not have the same meaning as after September 11. At the time, that meant forcing an airplane to land in an airport to carry out negotiations. We were used to handling that.”
The newspaper said the DGSE report was passed on to the CIA chief in Paris, as was all information about possible threats to American interests.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818064/posts
Recalling the Man Who Inspired Hitler
Arutz Sheva ^ | 4-16-07 | David Bedein
Posted on 04/16/2007 5:37:32 AM PDT by SJackson
David Bedein
A Muslim cleric inspired Hitler to Jihad.
April 16, 2007 Anti-Terrorism News
(Iraq) 13 Iraqi soldiers killed in ambush - near Mosul
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_ambush_1;_ylt=Ao6pTOY4GGQNnnE2SoLsPbRX6GMA
(Iraq) Sadr bloc pulls out of Iraqi government
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070416/ts_afp/iraq_070416104234;_ylt=AsyFrjZuSxuPM4bhRBOCUF1X6GMA
(Iraq) Armed groups seek official support to hunt Al-Qaeda in Iraq —
report
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1724963&Language=en
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/04/16/report_iraqi_militants_hunting_alqaida/
(Iraq) Caches of nitric acid seized in Baghdad
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070415-115817-6680r.htm
(Afghanistan) Suicide attack kills 10 in Afghanistan - attacking Kunduz
police training area
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence_41;_ylt=AtDfnla3uM6S5b1_95NJDB3OVooA
(Afghanistan) Report: Insurgents killed 669 Afghans in 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_as/afghan_civilian_casualties_5;_ylt=AgbJaW0aWI2ngTuEE7ffdFjOVooA
(Afghanistan) NATO force says key Taliban killed
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/April/subcontinent_April610.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
(Thailand) Four killed in Thai south - five schools set on fire, attack
on military, drive by shooting, and other attacks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070416/wl_asia_afp/thailandsouthunrestarsontoll_070416061725;_ylt=AtuE1097ZDnKdCe2sPDBiMvuNREB
(Thailand) Teachers in South want surveillance cameras - to help
protect schools from terrorism
http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=118116
Philippines: 70,000 people flee Sulu province as Muslim Rebel declares
Jihad in Sulu
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.405031742&par=0
Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiah forms hit squad: paper — to attack police,
prosecutors and judges
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/wl_nm/indonesia_security_ji_dc_1;_ylt=Ap89PXxltDICvIiAW0BIYOfaHXcA
http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.70300a17785a04285f53bcd7d3a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=30c8ebd3686f1110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:30c8ebd3686f1110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21565233-1702,00.html
(Pakistan) Karachi mass rally opposes “religious terrorists”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070415/india_nm/india294298
(Pakistan Lal Masjid) Pakistani students say government ‘gassed mosque’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070416/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanreligionseminary;_ylt=A0WTUcSuZCNG6fsAGAFvaA8F
(Pakistan) Lal Masjid mullahs to stop liquor sale in Islamabad
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\16\story_16-4-2007_pg1_4
(Pakistan) Musharraf’s Survival in Pakistan Election Insures Ally With
Questionable Sway
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266228,00.html
(Pakistan) Foreigners leaving N Waziristan: Taliban spokesman
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\04\16\story_16-4-2007_pg7_7
Pakistan: Tribes Vow Not to Shelter Uzbeks
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.404873486&par=0
(India) Four terrorists and three civilians killed in Jammu and Kashmir
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=4/16/2007#1
(India) Deaths set off protests in Indian Kashmir - protest of death of
two Muslim men in shootout with security patrol
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070416/wl_asia_afp/indiakashmirunrest_070416071847;_ylt=Ao0xSVNJ7HPziW2BVbEIIUhA7AkB
(India) Interpol issues red corner notice against July 11 accused -
Rizwan Mohammed Dawrey sent funds from Saudi Arabia to India through
hawala channels
http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=9b2742b6-1a91-4a99-9f50-485831284956&;
(India) Two Maoist militants killed in Chhattisgarh
http://www.indiaenews.com/india/20070415/47417.htm
(Bangladesh) Update: 28 Islamist militants arrested across country
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=4/16/2007#7
(Algeria) Bombers seek “second Iraq” in Algeria: Islamist
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/wl_nm/algeria_violence_dc_1;_ylt=AkVBjAl5jtziPdj_X2u7ZYlX6GMA
Algerian president visits blast victims as bombers identified
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415/wl_africa_afp/algeriamoroccoattacks_070415210032;_ylt=AmzdvLiXcK8tp1ogUrn4kt16CC8A
(Sudan) U.S.: Sudan Government Supports Janjaweed Islamist Militia —
accused of widespread atrocities in Darfur
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_af/sudan_us_2;_ylt=AoRBqvWb_zDCZz8fp6vFCKIShIMA
(Yemen) Trial of 36 Yemenis charged with being affiliated with al-Qaida
resumes
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/15/africa/ME-GEN-Yemen-Terrorism-Trial.php
(Egypt) Muslim Brotherhood to run in election
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_brotherhood;_ylt=Aqvqh1lRRYhpLptx4txLQAQLewgF
(Israel) Netanya: Police searching for suspected terrorist
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152805453&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas: Kidnapping soldiers is best solution to free “our heroes”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849024.html
(Israel) Haniyeh: Marwan Barghouti on prisoner list given to Israel
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152805986&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas and Fatah approve plan to merge militias and terrorists into
unified security force - with US Congress approving $59 million (my title)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55208
(Gaza) BBC “concerned” by claim Gaza correspondent killed Unknown group
called the, “Tawhid and Jihad Brigade” claims responsibility for the
kidnap and murder.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15632987.htm
(Gaza/Iran) Iran-backed Jihad Islami claims new homemade warhead and
engine extends Qassam missile range to 18 km
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4068
(Lebanon) Hezbollah says will only disarm if mandated by Lebanese
referendum
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849007.html
(Lebanon) Hizbullah: We have the weapons to defend Lebanon
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152803863&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Lebanon) Fatah Al-Islam: the new terrorist threat hanging over Lebanon
http://www.lefigaro.fr/english/20070416.WWW000000477_fatah_al_islam_the_new_terrorist_threat_hanging_over_lebanon.html
(USA) Padilla case well past ‘dirty bomb’ charges
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070415-111235-9762r.htm
Iran will ‘resist to the end’ on nuclear issue
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/16/wiran116.xml
Iran to reveal atomic steps if pressured-president — if UN passes
another resolution on Iran
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/ts_nm/iran_nuclear_resolution_dc_1;_ylt=AiVdzJ2mykzfhglJ7vP_Uy1Sw60A
Al Qaeda’s Maritime Threat - ICT analysis: “Maritime terrorism is
positioned to be their method of choice”
http://www.ict.org.il/apage/11847.php
(Turkey) One soldier, nine rebels killed in Turkey clashes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070416/wl_nm/turkey_kurds_dc_1;_ylt=AkqAVh64B3ctEpgHb_Pghb_tfLkA
(Turkey) Report: Islamic-rooted Turkish prime minister hints he will
run for president
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/16/europe/EU-POL-Turkey-President.php
(France) Report: French knew in January 2001 of al-Qaida plot to hijack
U.S. airliners
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_eu/france911_1;_ylt=An87drf_CWaYBvLI8mA04FgwuecA
UK: No more ‘war on terror’ - International Development Secretary
Hilary Benn says “war on terror” phrase to be discontinued in UK Cabinet
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_eu/britain_war_on_terror_1;_ylt=AnuGqC8lmRMsz_.D7PEnYyETv5UB
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152805309&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(UK) Britain grows Muslim terror database
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/04/16/britain_grows_muslim_terror_database/
(UK) MI5 adopts paedophile-tracking tactics for Muslim extremists —
focus on areas with large Pakistani communities — such as Birmingham,
Leeds and London
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1658085.ece
(Northern Ireland) Civil servant on terrorist charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6559747.stm
(Sri Lanka) Gunmen kill youth in northern Sri Lanka
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070416/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaunrest_070416062859;_ylt=AvhG3FSk9jzQOPAW3sUjRvItM8oA
(North Korea) Report: S. Korea May Halt Aid to North
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/K/KOREAS_NUCLEAR?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Other News:
(Iran) Group cleared over Iran murders — vigilantes were not guilty
because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities, the court
found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6557679.stm
Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070416/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holocaust_day_3;_ylt=As699srLoB1w74F19yCneOTuyucA
(UK) Britain vows to take rigid stand against anti-Semitism
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1176152804537&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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